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Going full sasquatch in Harrison Hot Springs Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown

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I was completely naked and shocked that the lake was so cold in a town so famous for hot water.

That’s just one of the many dichotomies I would discover in my first-ever visit to Harrison Hot Springs.

When I stepped into frigid Harrison Lake – the largest lake in the southern Coast Mountains stretching some 60 kilometres long and 280 metres deep – I thought for certain there was no one around. It was the only cloudy day of the summer and the beach at Sasquatch Provincial Park was deserted.

Unfortunately, midway through my skinny dip, a family showed up for a picnic. But let me back up a bit.

The reason for my stop in this visually gripping part of the province was to take part (fully clothed) in the Harrison Festival of the Arts, a 10-day celebration of world music, art, theatre and literature.The annual festival features free outdoor beach concerts, evening performances, a children’s day, art exhibits and two weekend art markets. It’s the cultural

event of the year and draws fans from all over the area.

Andy Hillhouse is the festival’s artistic director. He grew up in Vancouver but relocated from Toronto with his wife and six-year-old son to take over the job. The culture shock was immediate.

“It’s a really close-knit community out here,” says Hillhouse. “It took me about three years to crack it, to feel accepted, but there is incredible community support for the festival in this area.”

The town itself feels a bit like a miniature Penticton, seemingly undecided as to whether to let go or embrace its somewhat tacky 1950s resort façade, with theme restaurants, ice cream parlours, hot dog stands and motels lining the main drag that hugs the southern edge of the lake, where roaring jet skis have to steer clear of a gigantic inflatable water playground.

And yet there are strip standouts, like the excellent MuddyWaters Café, the historic Memorial Hall and, further along, the Ranger Station Art Gallery, which houses a writer rent-free for an entire year.

This year’s writer-inresidence is the outstanding Vancouver poet Bren Simmers, and she’s loving her time in the area.

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asks is ‘where are the hot springs?’” muses Hillhouse. I had to admit I was about to ask the exact same thing. So… where are the hot springs in Harrison Hot Springs?

Unfortunately, a giant hotel at the end of the main drag privatized the town’s namesake long ago. If you want to experience the springs in the great outdoors, you must be a guest at the hotel.The cheapest room is $209.

That was a stunner, until someone told me about the large public indoor pool which opened 50 years ago right at the main intersection of the village. The pool is indeed filled with hot springs water, but has a Cold War atmosphere. On the upside, you can have a soak for $10.

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One long-time resident whispered to me that “Chilliwack likes to dump their trash here on the weekends: pick-ups and pit bulls, if you catch my drift.”

The hairiest creature rumoured to roam the steep mountains that surround Harrison is the sasquatch, and the town has bought in to the image of the shaggy beast in a bigfoot way. For such an elusive creature, he’s everywhere,

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In some small way, I like to think that I contributed to the ancient ape-man legend when I emerged naked from the lake and scrambled through the shoreline trees, giving that unwitting family at the beach a glimpse of what could have been a sasquatch – albeit a somewhat gimpy, undersized and mangy one, with a serious case of shrinkage. W

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Indigenous Fashion Week founder Joleen Mitton embraces identity Aileen Lalor Style File

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Joleen Mitton has been hiding all her life. At school in East Van, she would rarely talk about her Cree background and when she did, the usual response was rejection or worse. When she told her first boyfriend she was First Nations, he used an ethnic slur, so she punched him. Later, she was model-scouted while waiting in line for a free smoothie.

Aged 15, she began travelling the world, modelling for brands like Lancôme and Vivienne Westwood, feigning an interest in fashion. “I was a tomboy and a basketball player who wore sporty, hip-hop-style clothing, and I had always been stocky. Then I grew tall and thin and the fashion world got interested in me,” she says. “One of my first jobs was modelling for a lingerie brand in Taiwan.

I had always drawn strength from being a strong athlete, and was only just coming to terms with my femininity.

Suddenly, people were telling me to be thin and sexy. I felt like a piece of meat.”

Not only was modelling going against her real interests but she was still expected to conceal her heritage. “My agency would tell people that I was half-Asian – there are even stories in Hong Kong magazines that say that,” she says.

After nine years in the fashion industry, she quit.

“I had a kind of identity

crisis at 25. I had developed an eating disorder because of the constant pressure to starve myself for three days before a big shoot or whatever. I was having cold sweats at night. I’d had enough of being someone else’s product. I was lonely – I was interested in different things to the other girls and I just didn’t want to be there.”

On returning to Vancouver, she began a new career as a support worker for people in the First Nations community – her first opportunity to really learn more about her own heritage (her mom had been raised in foster care, so Mitton was not familiar with Cree culture as a child).

But at this point, she felt it was necessary to conceal her model past. “I thought that there would be a kind of judgment of me,” she explains.

Initially, her work was with adults, but she soon learned how hard it was to break ingrained patterns that had been established over a lifetime. “Many times, people returned to drugs – four of my ex-clients have died of fentanyl overdoses – and, in the end, I found it too heartbreaking,” she explains.

She started working with the Urban Butterflies, a group run by the Pacific Association of First Nations Women (PAFNW) for girls aged nine to 13 who are in foster care. “With kids, you can mould them and be that fork in the road – show them they don’t have to grow up to be their parents.”

When she became involved in the PAFNW’s Mentor Me program for 14- to 25-year-olds ageing out of foster care, she faced new challenges. “We started to lose them. They weren’t interested in resumés and life skills – all the things we were trying to teach them. We had some deaths to suicide and some drug overdoses.”

At this point, Mitton decided she needed to share her own experiences, from her “crazy” childhood to her escape into another kind of craziness – modelling.

“I wanted to show them what I’d done and let them know they have options – to use my model background as a teaching resource,” she explains. This was the seed of the idea that led to Vancouver’s first Indigenous Fashion Week, which takes place next week.

For this, Mitton has stopped hiding and brought together all the threads of her identity – as a First Nations woman, fashion insider and someone who works with young people.

The event showcases more than 25 designers in 20 hours of shows over four days and the majority of models are from the Mentor Me programme. “It’s about exposure for our designers who want to be seen on a good stage. It’s also to prepare the girls from Mentor Me for the world of work.

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Some non-First Nations designers are being featured, but is reconciliation also a goal for the event? Mitton says no. “Reconciliation is the scary R word,” she says.

“This is a step in the right direction, for sure, but I think we’re still a couple of generations away from genuinely achieving that.”

Mitton says there is a true First Nations aesthetic established in fashion – she cites Yukon designer Sho Sho Esquiro’s traditional beading and Squamish Pam Baker’s totem-influenced pieces, and says the work of Jeneen Frei Njootli, a Vuntut Gwich’in artist, reminds her of the Aurora Borealis. Then there are the ubiquitous blanket scarves, moccasins

and other First Nationsinfluenced pieces ever present on the high street. Is it acceptable for non-Indigenous people to wear these designs, or does that cross into cultural appropriation?

“Sure, wear it,” says Mitton.

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Indigenous Fashion Week founder Joleen Mitton wearing Dahlia Drive, featuring work by master carver Reg Davidson. Angela Fama photo

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Where to eat, play and sip in the Fraser Valley

Agassiz region, about 30 minutes away.

Driving is thirsty work, so make sure to stop at nearby Kermode Wild Berry Wines in Dewdney, just past Mission, for some dry table wines (or even a sweet port) made entirely from locally foraged berries.The tasting room is open from noon to 6pm daily in the summer months. Continue on and stop at The Farm House Natural Cheeses for certified-organic, grass-fed goat and cow-milk cheeses,

and visit with the resident baby goats.The farm store also sells locally made products like honey, tea, quinoa and more. Don’t miss the goat gouda!

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The store also sells handmade First Nations gifts and clothing, fresh and smoked salmon, salmon candy, local fruits from surrounding farms and fair-trade products.

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the brewery is used to irrigate crops. Spent grains are used as compost, helping to build up the topsoil.The non-profit Sunshine Coast Association for Community Living owns five per cent of Persephone and tends a modest chicken run, helping to employ people with developmental disabilities.

In fact, only two per cent of the farm’s landbase is used for brewing.

Call me crazy, but that totally sounds like a farm.

“We’re adding agricultural value to our land,” says Smith.

“From Day 1, we’ve adhered to the winery regulations and are using more than 60 per cent BC grain.We’re putting somewhere in the low millions of dollars per year into the economy. I think that matters.”

Smith isn’t the only one anxiously awaiting changes to the policy.

Farhad Ebrahimi owns an 8.8-acre farm on Hatzic Lake near Mission that’s currently non-productive. He’d like to plant hops on the land and start brewing beer, but he can’t do that until the policy changes. In the meantime, his fields remain fallow.

“We would like to see the policy relaxed,” he said. “Having non-productive farmland does not serve anybody.”

Even if the new government can’t get around to changing the policy in the upcoming fall session of the legislature, the ALC should at the very least grant an exemption to Persephone in the meantime (as was recently granted to Sorrento’s Crannog Ales).

Without a change in the policy, or an exemption, Persephone will be forced to close its doors by December 2018. W

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@FoodgirlFriday The heat is on, it’s time to hit the road, but where to run when you’ve got limited time and means, and don’t want to deal with border crossings, planes or ferries?

It’s simple. Head east toward farm country and discover some delicious and delightful places to stay, play, and – most importantly –dine.

Abbotsford is a scant 45 minutes (depending on traffic) from Vancouver and has grown, like much of the Fraser Valley, into much more than a collection of suburbs and farms. It’s a worthy day (or weekend) trip, boasting wineries, restaurants and, yes, farms.

Let’s start with the wines.

Places like the brand-new Seaside Pearl Farmgate Winery produce small-lot estate wines grown on Mount Lehman.Try its Reserve Petit Verdot or the Pinot Gris in the tasting chapel (yes, it’s an actual chapel) and enjoy the

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Nearby, Singletree Winery is known for its elegant Grüner Veltliner, grown on the estate and made in Summerland at Okanagan Crush Pad. Drinking on an empty stomach is never a good idea, so make sure to stop by Mt. Lehman Cheese Co. to stock up on goat and buffalomilk cheeses at the working farm, like the excellent Blue Capri, a dense, creamy goat blue that gives a hint of salt and a sweet finish. For a proper meal, stop by Bram-

bles Bistro at Tanglebank Gardens nursery.Work up an appetite while shopping for succulents, then head over to the bistro for a quiet lunch or brunch in a garden setting.

Once you’ve fuelled up, Taves Family Farms is the perfect place to start your fruit-picking adventures, especially if you’ve got kids.

The working farm opens to the public each year in August (on the 18th this year).

Check out the petting barn, pedal karts and the Farmville play area, and stock up on U-

pick apples. Do not miss out on their cider, a natural, unfiltered juice with no added water, sugar or preservatives that they make on site.There are also hay rides, cider-press demos, pony rides and a corn quest maze.

Looking for more? Sleep at one of Abby’s many B&Bs and hotels (and spare some time for a peek into the Pinterestworthy antique shop The Market by Spruce Collective), then continue down the highway in the morning to warm and windy Harrison/

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With the NDP and Greens assuming power this week inVictoria, BC brewers and hop farmers are “cautiously optimistic” that changes are coming to an ill-conceived provincial policy that makes it all but impossible to operate a farm-based brewery.

In case you’re not familiar with the story so far, the government is threatening to shut down Persephone Brewing Company on the Sunshine Coast if it doesn’t comply with a policy requiring it to grow at least 50 per cent of its fermentable grain on site. Unfortunately, the brewery, which sits on 11 acres of Agricultural Land Reserve farmland, would need hundreds of acres of land to grow the barley required to make its beer.

Basically, the policy, enacted last year by the previous BC Liberal government, was

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created to protect farmland from being converted to nonfarm uses. However, while wineries and cideries are only required to source half their fermentables from anywhere in BC (in this case, grapes and apples, respectively), for some reason that no one can explain, breweries have to grow half their grains literally on site (or immediately nearby).

Brian Smith is one of the owners of Persephone Brewing and he says he’s cautiously optimistic the policy will be changed based on conversations he’s had with members of the NDP. “Several NDP candidates expressed support for our position [prior to the May provincial election],” says Smith. In particular, Powell River-Sunshine Coast MLA Nicholas Simons publicly supported Persephone’s position, going so far as to speak in favour of changing the policy in the legislature.

I emailed Simons, and while he wouldn’t say definitively if and when a change to the policy could be expected, he

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did double-down on his support for Persephone.

“The policy as it stands doesn’t pass the fairness test,” Simons told me. “Breweries and their product shouldn’t be unfairly treated compared to wineries, for example.”

Smith says he also spoke with Saanich South NDP MLA Lana Popham, whom he says fully supports Persephone’s position.This past Tuesday, Popham was named Minister of Agriculture in the new NDP/Green provincial cabinet, so she’ll be the one responsible for making any changes to the policy.

“She expressed very clearly that she fully supported us and saw no reason why the policy shouldn’t be updated,” according to Smith. “She seemed very genuine. I think her support goes beyond just scoring political points.”

I emailed and phoned Popham after her appointment was announced onTuesday, but didn’t hear back by press deadline.

Having visited Persephone myself, it’s a little bizarre it’s

not considered a farm. I get that it doesn’t conform to the ridiculous, poorly thought-out policy the previous government pushed through, but Persephone might be the farmiest farm I’ve ever seen.

They even have a red barn.

But aesthetics aside, Persephone operates as a farm, sells an agricultural product and is increasing the amount of productive farmland in the province, which is exactly what the ALR was created to do in the first place.

When Persephone first purchased the farm, more than half the land was wooded and not suitable for agricultural production. Persephone has since cleared the property, increasing its arable farmland with eight of the 11 acres currently growing crops.

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Don your fascinators and fedoras, raise your cocktail coupes, and you’re off to the races for the ninth annual Deighton Cup. We’re not just talking about the ponies at Hastings Park, of course. We’re talking about the fifth annual Cocktail Jockey competition that’s part of all the swellegant action on the concourse this Saturday (July 22).

“Everything is bigger, bigger, bigger this year, but with all the glitz and glam of the Deighton Cup,” says the event’s cocktail director, Alex Black.

This year, the cocktail competition will be held a day earlier at Reflections at the Hotel Georgia, so the competing bartenders can

spend their time at the races talking to guests and actually being part of the Deighton Cup experience. That includes all the food, fashion, cocktails, art, live music, the traditional Style Stakes Best Dressed competition, the new Fanny Bay Oyster Bar and, of course, the eight horse races at the heart of the event.

At Friday’s Cocktail Jockey competition, 10 talented bartenders from across BC will create variations on a classic Champagne cocktail, sponsored by PiperHeidsieck, which will also be the trackside pour. The winner takes home the coveted Boothby Julep Trophy and $1,000 in cash, joining past champions Sean McGuigan, Cam Brown and last year’s favourite, Kaitlyn Stewart.

But hold up a minute.

Champagne cocktails? Aren’t they a bit of a punchline?

As Eve so memorably says

Hotel Georgia’s cocktail director Alex Black created the “First to the Post”.

Dan Toulgoet photo in the movie Blast from the Past, “I thought only hookers drank those things.”

True, the Champagne cocktail isn’t particularly fashionable right now except in a handful of Vancouver

bars, largely because to make a proper one is so expensive: Place a sugar cube in the bottom of a flute or coupe, add a dash of Angostura bitters, followed by a generous splash of Cognac and top with chilled Champagne.

“Investing in it is hard because there’s no demand from the consumer,” Black says. “Hopefully this sparks a renaissance of the Champagne cocktail.”

The drink itself dates back to the mid-19th century, when it was often served with crushed ice and no brandy. It was recorded in Professor Jerry Thomas’s BonVivant’s Companion of 1862 and, according to legend, it was such a popular drink among prospectors returning from the Gold Rush to 1850s San Francisco that more Champagne was sold in California than in France.

It was Dorothy Parker’s

Barbera’s undiscovered charms Michaela Morris By the Bottle @MichaelaWine

Every summer, I go on a pilgrimage to the Italian region of Piedmont for Collisioni, a frenetic mash-up of music, literature, food and wine.

The festival takes place in the township of Barolo, which gives its name to one of Italy’s most famous wines.

And while I’m spoiled with free-flowing bottles of this exquisite Nebbiolo-based elixir, Collisioni gives equal opportunity to Italy’s many other deserving, though lesstouted treasures.

This year kicked off with an immersion in Barbera. If Nebbiolo is the suave king of Piedmont, Barbera is often considered a hard-working commoner. Charming and easy-to-like, Barbera is enticingly deep ruby-purple in colour and characterized by

bright, mouth-watering acidity and low, soft tannin.

It’s Italy’s fourth most planted red and grown throughout the country, with Piedmont boasting its greatest expressions. In the Langhe hills, however, the best vineyard sites are reserved for Barolo, so Barbera is typically relegated to lesser spots.

These wines are labelled as Barbera d’Alba. Not that Barbera d’Alba is bad by any stretch of the imagination; they are crafted by some of Italy’s best winemakers. It’s just that Barbera simply isn’t the focus of the zone.

North of the Langhe hills lies the province of Asti.

Here Barbera rules the vineyards and it occupies even the finest plots. Asti is large and offers a variety of styles, quality and price points.

While Barbera has earned a bit of a reputation for cheap and cheerful wine, the area of Nizza is making a strong case for top-notch examples.

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With a long history of superior quality wine, Nizza use to be a sub-zone of the Asti region and since 2014 boasts its own autonomous denomination with stricter growing and production methods. The consistency of excellent quality across the board has me convinced.

Wines from Nizza sell for $40-80 by the time they make it to our shores and for this you get extra intensity, complexity and ageability.

Curiously, much of the Barbera you’ll see in BC hails from the denomination of Barbera d’Alba. The reason for this is that most of the Barolo producers available BC also have a Barbera in their portfolio. While they are well worth a try, I encourage you to venture beyond the Langhe hills and seek out Barbera d’Asti.

2014 Ricossa Barbera d’Asti DOCG LTO $12.97 until July 29 (reg

$15.29) BC Liquor Stores This Barbera is a staple in BC. It is the epitome of the image of Barbera; affordably priced, straightforward and juicy. I recommend it when you are looking for an inexpensive bottle – but please do not end your Barbera d’Asti exploration here.

2013 Michele Chiarlo, ‘Le Orme’ Barbera d’Asti DOCG $23 Available at Everything Wine Michele Chiarlo is an important name in the Asti area and was instrumental in improving the quality of Barbera. Aged in stainless steel, Le Orme is fresh and exuberant with red cherry, intriguing

favourite drink, Bogie drank it in Casablanca and it had a starring role in the soigné Thin Man movies.

It is chic and stylish and, despite the naysayers who consider it a terrible thing to do to Champagne, delicious with that lively interplay of sweet, bitter and bubble.

Black for one is thrilled to have the Champagne cocktail as the theme drink this year.

“It’s a cocktail that’s kind of a blank slate. We’ve done the julep and the cobbler, and this is another simple drink,” he says, noting that the basic formula is spirit, sugar, bitters, bubbles, “and do with the rest what you will.”

He anticipates that “blank slate” will allow for the creation of some pretty exciting cocktails.

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earthy notes and crunchy, bright acidity. A lively partner with grilled sausages.

2011 Vietti ‘La Crena’ Barbera d’Asti Superiore DOCG Nizza $80 Available at Kitsilano Wine Cellars While Vietti is known as an exceptional Barolo producer, the estate also owns Barbera vineyards in the region of Nizza.

La Crena demonstrates the heights that this variety can reach. Sophisticated yet still approachable, it exudes dark maraschino, black raspberry and spice aromas. Rich, round and plush on the palate with balancing cleansing acid, velvety smooth tannin and well integrated oak lending a hint of vanilla, it lingers on the finish with an appetizing dusting of cocoa.

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Bags of convenience KELSEY KLASSEN @kelseyklassen

Much like a beautifully baked pie,Vancouverites are a little bit flaky.We lament our status as a “lonely city,” yet there’s actually a term – the Vancouver Intention – for our habit of saying to friends that we want to hang out, without ever actually intending to. Party planners will also note that, when it’s raining, when it’s not raining, and on any day ending in “day,” about 20 per cent of the people who RSVP for an event simply won’t show up. So, it’s safe to say that Vancouverites prefer to eschew commitment for the ability to remain spontaneous.

Thankfully, for food lovers at least, there’s a CSA for that.

CSAs, or Community-Supported Agriculture boxes, are boxes of fresh, local produce pre-paid for by the consumer.

The farm sees the money at the start of the growing season, and the home cook gets a steady stream of produce from a specific farm. But what if you don’t want fresh food every week or month, and what if you want to see some variety?

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Local galleries threatened by SkyTrain expansion GREGORY ADAMS @gregoryadamsbc

While industrial area-turnedarts district the Flats has become ground zero for many local culture seekers, two of the largest galleries in the area have learned they could be bounced out of their shared building space to make way for a new SkyTrain station.

Just ahead of last weekend’s annual block party/gallery walk around the area, tying together over a dozen studios and show spaces around Main and Great NorthernWay, the Monte Clark and Equinox galleries issued a joint statement alerting the public that the converted, 20,000-square-foot Finning

factory they took possession of in 2011 is in danger of being demolished as part of the proposed Millennium Line Broadway Extension.The new station would sit in front of the to-be-completed Emily Carr campus, which faces both galleries and is set to open its doors this fall.The proposed tear-down could take place as early as 2019.

Equinox director Andy Sylvester learned of the demo plans last month at an open forum hosted byTransLink.

The company, however, noted to Westender that it had brought these expansion plans to the community back in 2013, the proposal later approved by the city in 2014.The plan was to

The Monte Clark and Equinox galleries lie directly in the path. have the galleries retain the building until construction for the SkyTrain line began.

Considering the traffic it could potentially bring to the area, both he and neighbouring director Monte Clark have since reached out to transit officials in attempt to both bring the station through while also hanging onto their building.

“We’ve reached out toTrans-

Link.We haven’t got a meeting date yet, but they’ve returned the email,” Clark told the WestenderTuesday, adding that he and Sylvester will also be sitting down with city councillor Andrea Reimer this week to express their concerns. “We’re just finding out who we speak with and taking it from there.”

The Finning building was erected in 1964, and once acted as a paint shop. Currently, both Monte Clark and Equinox show world-acclaimed, locally produced work. Monte Clark boasts photographer Roy Arden as part of its roster, and is currently exhibiting a photo show from Karin Bubaš. Next door, photos from celebrated old-Vancouver documentarian

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The last decade of cultural rebranding in the Flats has made Monte Clark and Equinox hightraffic spots for art openings, and part of a landscape that includesWinsor Gallery, Macaulay Fine Art, Catriona Jefferies Gallery and more.The city itself has noted in a statement that “the health ofVancouver’s arts and cultural sector relies heavily on the Flats.”

Having formerly held his gallery on South Granville, noting that parking back then had been at a premium, Clark is concerned about the idea of having to move out of the easily

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That’s phenomenal.”

TransLink would not comment further on the status of the project, but Clark maintains that their issue isn’t with the idea of bringing rapid transit into the Flats. “It’s not that we don’t want a train, but maybe there’s a way they can do a slight diversion? Maybe they can bore under us,” he mused, later adding, “Before everybody gets all worked up, let’s just figure out how far they are along.” W

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‘Phantom of the Opera’ goes big, leaves little in the shadows KELSEY KLASSEN @kelseyklassen

At Queen Elizabeth Theatre until July 23, 2017 Tickets from $37.40 at vancouver.broadway.com The Phantom of the Opera is meant to wow. From its glittering, back-stage pass to the drama-filled machinations of a Parisian opera house, to its soaring arias and duets, to its showy pyrotechnics and moody depths, there’s a reason it’s one of the longestrunning and most beloved Broadway musicals.

Telling the story of Christine Daaé (Katie Travis), a young ballerina who displays otherworldly talent as a soprano under the tutelage of a demented, disfigured musical

genius, Phantom of the Opera centres on forbidden love, forgiveness, and – like any good opera (or, rather, story about one) – a healthy dose of murder. Here, prolific musical producer Cameron Mackintosh and director Laurence Connor have given a gritty reboot to the glossy Andrew Lloyd Webber/Harold Prince original, and fans (fantoms?) were out in full force Friday night for this interpretation of the award-winning 1988 production.

Special effects still reign and political correctness is still tossed with aplomb out the window, but the audience at the July 14 performance was moved to its feet by the end, literally fist pumping when the Phantom – an impassioned Derrick Davis,

Phantom stars Derrick Davis and Katie Travis. Matthew Murphy photo who happens to be the first African-American star to tour in the blockbuster hit – stepped forward for his bows.

And that’s thanks, in large part, to the strength of Act 2.

Meanwhile, Act 1 is fortissimo from the moment the prologue comes to its explosive conclusion.

A story based in the

wings and watery bowels of the Palais Garnier, centred around a menacing mentor stalking a suggestible ingenue, should start with a whisper.

And while, technically, the Phantom’s first appearance is a disembodied hiss, the rest of Act 1 plays out like a shout.

The orchestra is cranked and the singers compete to keep up as they set the stage for the tragic and twisted gothic romance.

It’s a shame, as Davis and Travis are likely capable of the restrained performances that made their Broadway counterparts, Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess, household names. In this mix, much of the motivation and mystery of the relationships – the chemistry between Christine and her mentor,

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and Christine and her suitor Raoul, for that matter – is lost to sheer volume, leaving little for us to plumb in the shadows of their souls.

A number of the cast also seemed uninvested in the choreography at times, seemingly going through the motions of the dance – during the group ballroom number “Masquarade,” for example – rather than actually dancing.

But where the emotion of Act 1 – the cast’s fear and confusion, and Christine’s burgeoning obsession with her “Angel of Music” – gets lost in the overwhelming orchestration and highly elaborate, awe-inducing set piece (designer Paul Brown’s version of a Magic Box), the grief and rage of Act 2 truly soars to the rafters, likely to

stir the soul of our very own Opera Ghost, if the Queen Elizabeth were lucky enough to be possessed.

From the Phantom’s majestic Bowie-esque appearance in “Why So Silent” onward, the tension between Christine, the Phantom and Raoul starts to make sense.

And by the time she’s finally forced to make a choice, her grief and regret is palpable.

As is the Phantom’s.

Davis was wholly deserving of his Vancouver ovation, captivating with every menacing appearance on stage and presenting the most fully formed, fully motivated character in the show.

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At Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) until August 19, 2017 Tickets from $30 at ticketstonight.ticketforce.com There’s nothing snoozy or sleepy about thisTUTS production of The Drowsy Chaperone: it’s flat-out, full-on fun. Plus it’s wickedly clever.

With book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, it’s an affectionate spoof on 1920s romantic musical comedies.

All that glitz, all that glam, all those exaggerated emotions and ridiculous plots.

Originally a skit written in 1997 by McKellar, Lambert and Morrison as stag-party entertainment for Bob Martin’s upcoming marriage to Janet van de Graaf, The Drowsy Chaperone was subsequently rewritten for theToronto Fringe Festival and, later, with Martin on board as a co-writer, it was expanded and opened atToronto’sTheatre Passe Muraille in 1999. Success followed success and The Drowsy Chaperone – a made-in-Canada musical comedy – opened on Broadway in 2006.

Middle-aged, sad and lonely, and a total musical-comedy

fanatic, Man in Chair (Shawn Macdonald), sits alone in his run-down apartment. Once he sees the audience he tears down the fourth wall to share with us a two-record album of his favourite musical, The Drowsy Chaperone.That’s the first level of smart-alecky-ness: there was no Drowsy Chaperone until McKellar and Co. wrote it.

The real-life engaged couple – Bob Martin and Janet van de Graaf – appear as characters in the musical-within-a-comedy.

Fictional Janet (Shannon Hanbury) is a Feldzieg’s Follies star about to give up her career to marry Robert (Stuart Barkley), formerly the guy in the ad for AllBrightToothpaste (fifth ingredient – cocaine). Janet, clearly loving the spotlight – swanning and posing – sings “Show Off”, in which she declares “I don’t wanna show off no more.”The lady doth protest too much.

Soon Man in Chair’s apartment is full of singing, dancing characters. And, of course, there’sThe Drowsy Chaperone (Caitriona Murphy) whose job it is to keep the bride and groom from seeing each other on the wedding day.

It’s all completely, charmingly over-the-top and under the direction of Gillian Barber, no one is asleep at the wheel.

What’s the glue that keeps

this all together? Shawn Macdonald, as Man in Chair, is adorably self-effacing, definitely fey – if not gay – and clearly mad about musicals.

Caitriona Murphy is on fire as the constantly imbibing chaperone. It’s the booze, of course, that makes her character drowsy. At one point, flat on her back – making herself available to clueless Aldolpho – she gets handed a glass from the below-stage conductor Kevin Michael Cripps who leads a spirited orchestra of 12.

The show is full of smarts: the power goes off and the record dies and, with it, all that singing and dancing stops until the power is restored; the record sticks and everyone keeps repeating what they were doing; the Man in Chair has to pee so it’s intermission; Man in Chair’s cleaning lady puts the wrong record into the sleeve and a completely different musical begins.

Musicals don’t generally have a message – but this one does.You’ll have to see the show to find out what it is.

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have worked with HUB many times over the years, helping immigrants settle in culturally, feel welcome, and learn about community,” he says.Through short courses on cycling skills for newcomers, HUB Cycling and ISSofBC have forged a strong relationship. After some discussion about how to best involve newcomers in Canadian culture, they came up with the idea to create the Newcomer Bike Host Program together.

Ismayilov points out that new immigrants and refugees are “always surprised [by] how many people bike here, especially females.” Many of them come from cultures where a woman biking is unheard of.

These days, he says, ISSofBC is dealing with a large number of refugees from Syria, as well as from Iran and Iraq, and they have a lot of women riding bikes for the first time.

Ismayilov says he finds the whole process very rewarding.

“Those who join the mentorship program, their English develops much better.This is about community.”

After all the pressure to find a place to live and a job, he adds, “This is the fun part of settling in. It has a lot of positive side effects.”

Burak concurs: “As well as all the great cycling skills and knowledge they are gaining, the hope is that by forming a relationship with a mentor and going on weekly outings, newcomers will also walk away feeling a sense of belonging and social connection in Vancouver.”

The program is already growing, with 24 matches this summer session, including individuals, couples and families.

In total, HUB anticipates that 51 newcomers will be reached in the first year and 37 volunteers will take part.

“We hope to secure funding to continue the program in 2018. It’s been very popular among newcomers, immigrants and the local volunteers.With more and more newcomers settling in Vancouver each year, we see a growing demand for the program,” Burak says.

And there have been many success stories. Burak gives an example that, she feels, demonstrates the steep learning curve that some of the newcomers experience: As a beginner cyclist, newcomer Zoreh challenged herself to cycle all the way from her home in False Creek to the ISSofBC building on Victoria and Broadway in order to attend her weekly language class. “Every week she managed to make it a bit further, and finally after two months of supported cycling with her volunteer, they cycled all the way together.” W

Vancouverites in the winter, dovetailing nicely with the growing trend of having groceries pre-packed and/or delivered. Past suppliers include North Arm Farms, Hazelmere Organic Farms, Klippers Organics and forager Lance Staples. It allows you the freedom to say, hey, I’d love to surprise my guests this weekend with sea asparagus from Vancouver Island. And it puts new local producers, many of whom aren’t represented at farmers’ markets, in front of engaged foodies.

“This past week’s bag we purchased from Cherry Lane in Richmond, Klippers Organics, we frequently use Food Pedalers – a local sprout company that delivers by bike – and rice from Masa [Shiroki] at Artisan SakeMaker,” says Carlson. “He’s the only person to be growing rice this far north in North America, and he grows it for his sake

production, and when he has extra he sells it to a few restaurants for culinary purposes.”

Summer fruits are currently making their way into the rotation, as are assorted lettuces, radishes, cucumbers, Japanese turnips and garlic scapes.

Carlson, the same acclaimed culinary mind behind Burdock & Co. on Main Street, tailors the program based on her 20 years of experience bringing high-quality producers into her kitchens.

“I just think it’s a great opportunity for people to get a diverse bag of produce that isn’t exclusively from one grower,” she says, noting that about 35 people take part in the program each week.

A bi-weekly newsletter offers a peek of the upcoming contents, as well as recipes to help you get started.You can sign up for the newsletter or order your next bag ($35) at harvestunion.ca/csa-boxes. W

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@AmySnowLogan A young Syrian woman tentatively gets on a bike for the first time; an Iraqi man discovers the joys of coasting along the seawall on a summer evening.

Across the city, experienced Vancouver cyclists are taking newcomers under their wing to teach them how to bike, and perhaps even more importantly, to introduce them to a new culture by way of two wheels.They are part of the innovative Newcomer Bike Host Program, which ran for the first time this spring as a joint venture of HUB Cycling and Immigrant Services Society of BC. Modelled after a similar program run inToronto with CultureLink, the program “pairs new immigrants and refugees with local ‘host’ volunteers for weekly meet-ups, where they get oriented toVancouver’s cycling routes, rules, and culture while having fun exploring the city by bike and improving their conversational English,” says Alyshia Burak, HUB Cycling’s bike education program manager.

Funded in part by the City ofVancouver’s Greenest City Fund andTransLink, the program aims to “introduce newcomers to the health, economic and environmental benefits of cycling, and to build their confidence and skills so that biking is a viable transportation option for them in the future,” Burak notes.

Elmir Ismayilov, volunteer and community coordinator for the Immigrant Services Society of BC (ISSofBC), has been involved in the program from the start. “We

Continued from page 8 For the past few years, Vancouver’s own Harvest Community Foods has been offering their version of a tasty compromise: curated bags of in-season produce from around the province, available every two weeks at the shop, that you can buy if you want to, when you want to.

“The idea behind [it] was we’re doing something a little different from the classic CSA,” says chef/owner Andrea Carlson. “In a traditional CSA you sign up for the full season, so this is something where you can have it week to week, skip weeks if you don’t need it. It’s also smaller, which is a bit more suited to the neighbourhood that we’re in, of single families, couples, that sort of thing.”

The program originated in 2012 as a way for Carlson to keep fresh produce going for

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The best pickup move anyone ever pulled on me came from my husband. This was long before we even started dating. We lived on opposite sides of the border, so occasional texting was all we had. One day, I was sitting in the park with some friends, soaking up that one week of beautiful Vancouver sunshine, when my phone pinged. I had completely forgotten about that longhaired guy in Los Angeles who looked like a human colouring book. We spitballed back and forth for a while, each text pushing the flirtation harder and harder, until he blew my mind with the best sext of all time: a photo of him standing naked in the mirror with his Stratocaster guitar balanced in front, hid-

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“That’s what I thought,” said to a woman by a man after he grabbed her boobs.

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“I can’t remember the exact pickup line the guy said but it was something super lame. He wouldn’t leave me alone and I finally told him to ‘fuck off’, then he goes, ‘Tribe 8 called, they want their bass player back!’ It was so fucking funny I shot vodka out my nose.” W

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Spain’s most revered mystic poet was St. John of the Cross, who lived from 1542 to 1591. He went through a hard time at age 35, when he was kidnapped by a rival religious sect and imprisoned in a cramped cell. Now and then he was provided with scraps of bread and dried fish, but he almost starved to death. After ten months, he managed to escape and make his way to a convent that gave him sanctuary. For his first meal, the nuns served him warm pears with cinnamon. I reckon that you’ll soon be celebrating your own version of a jailbreak, Leo. It’ll be less drastic and more metaphorical than St. John’s, but still a notable accomplishment. To celebrate, I invite you to enjoy a ritual meal of warm pears with cinnamon.

“I’m very attracted to things that I can’t define,” says Belgian fashion designer Raf Simons. I’d love for you to adopt that attitude, Virgo. You’re entering the Season of Generous Mystery. It will be a time when you can generate good fortune for yourself by being eager to get your expectations overturned and your mind blown.

Transformative opportunities will coalesce as you simmer in the influence of enigmas and anomalies. Meditate on the advice of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke: “I want to beg you to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves.”

I’ve compiled a list of four mantras for you to draw strength from. They’re designed to put you in the proper alignment to take maximum advantage of current cosmic rhythms. For the next three weeks, say them periodically throughout the day. 1. “I want to give the gifts I like to give rather than the gifts I’m supposed to give.” 2. “If I can’t do things with excellence and integrity, I won’t do them at all.” 3. “I intend to run on the fuel of my own deepest zeal, not on the fuel of someone else’s passions.” 4. “My joy comes as much from doing my beautiful best as from pleasing other people.”

The world will never fully know or appreciate the nature of your heroic journey. Even the people who love you the most will only ever understand a portion of your epic quest to become your best self. That’s why it’s important for you to be generous in giving yourself credit for all you have accomplished up until now and will accomplish in the future.

Take time to marvel at the majesty and miracle of the life you have created for yourself.

Celebrate the struggles you’ve weathered and the liberations you’ve initiated. Shout “Glory hallelujah!” as you acknowledge your persistence and resourcefulness. The coming weeks will be an especially favorable time to do this tricky but fun work.

I suspect you may have drug-like effects on people in the coming weeks. Which drugs? At various times, your impact could resemble cognac, magic mushrooms, and Ecstasy -- or sometimes all three simultaneously. What will you do with all that power to kill pain and alter moods and expand minds? Here’s one possibility: Get people excited about what you’re excited about, and call on them to help you bring your dreams to a higher stage of development. Here’s another: Round up the support you need to transform any status quo that’s boring or unproductive.

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

So said psychologist Carl Jung. What the hell did that meddling, self-important know-it-all mean by that? Oops. Sorry to sound annoyed.

My cranky reaction may mean I’m defensive about the possibility that I’m sometimes a bit preachy myself. Maybe I don’t like an authority figure wagging his finger in my face because I’m suspicious of my own tendency to do that.

Hmmm. Should I therefore refrain from giving you the advice I’d planned to? I guess not.

Listen carefully, Capricorn: Monitor the people and situations that irritate you. They’ll serve as mirrors. They’ll show you unripe aspects of yourself that may need adjustment or healing.

A source of tough and tender inspiration seems to be losing some of its signature potency. It has served you well. It has given you many gifts, some difficult and some full of grace. But now I think you will benefit from transforming your relationship with its influence. As you might imagine, this pivotal moment will be best navigated with a clean, fresh, open attitude. That’s why you’ll be wise to thoroughly wash your own brain -- not begrudgingly, but with gleeful determination.

For even better results, wash your heart, too.

A “power animal” is a creature selected as a symbolic ally by a person who hopes to imitate or resonate with its strengths. The salmon or hare might be a good choice if you’re seeking to stimulate your fertility, for example. If you aspire to cultivate elegant wildness, you might choose an eagle or horse. For your use in the coming months, I propose a variation on this theme: the “power fruit.” From now until at least May 2018, your power fruit should be the ripe strawberry.

Why? Because this will be a time when you’ll be naturally sweet, not artificially so; when you will be juicy, but not dripping all over everything; when you will be compact and concentrated, not bloated and bursting at the seams; and when you should be plucked by hand, never mechanically.

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